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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.org
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
THE GREATNESS OF SADHUS :
Like an engineer he builds up
A sadhu is an engigeer. life and sanctifies it.
A Sadhu functions like a lawyer also. Just as a lawyer argues for you in a court, a sadhu also helps you to get rid of your karmas. Therefore, hand over the file of your life to a sadhu and then you stop worrying. He will take care of you and he will liberate you from karmas. But if you do not place the truth before a sadhu, how can he fight against your karmas ?
A sadhu is also a doctor. When you go to a doctor for treatment you speak out the truth to him. You describe to him all your sufferings. You do not conceal anything from a doctor. A doctor will give you the right medicine only when he knows the nature of your disease and he will also prescribe a proper diet. In the same manner, a sadhu also gives you spiritual medicine and prescribes certain spiritual activities and austerities which will help you to attain spiritual health.
You must say that you are besieged by passions and sensual cravings; that you have the mental distortion of boasting of yourself ; that hypocrisy has become the policy of your life. If you confess the truth thus, a sadhu can show you the way to peace and felicity. When you do not describe your disease how can a sadhu help you and guide you?
The Chaturmas is a spiritual camp. Here we have in-patients. You are all out-patients. Here, we give medicine to out-patients also in the form of spiritual austerities. We also give you injections in the form of atonements.
A Sadhu is a qualified doctor to treat your spiritual diseases. He will cure your spiritual maladies by means of proper spiritual remedies; and will suggest the right
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